Detachable cockeye



(No Model.)

B. A. HARDY.

DETAGHABLE UOGKEYE. No. 584,159. Patented June 8,1897.

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EDGAR A. HARDY, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

DETACHABLE COCKEYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 584,159, dated June 8, 1897.

Application filed deptem'ber 12, 1896. Serial No. 605 ,675. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDGAR A. HARDY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Denver, in the county of Arapahoe and State of Colorado, have invented a Detachable Cockeye, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to provide a cockeye adapted to be readily adjustably and detachably connected with a harness-tug at one end and with a hook on a singletree at its other end, as required in hitching and nnhitching horses, and also adapted to be securely retained and carried by the tug when a horse is unhitched.

My invention consists in the device cast complete in one piece, as hereinafter set forth.

To this end my invention consists in the formation of the detachable cockeye, as hereinafter. set forth, pointed out in my claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the complete cockeye. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the end of a tug with one of the cockeyes inserted in an opening in the lug in the position it must assume when first placed therein. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of atug and singlet-ree connected by means of the detachable sockeye, as in practical use, a portion of the tug being broken away to show the position of parts of the cockeye.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the reference-letter A is used to designate a leather tug, and A openings therein adapted to admit and retain the enlarged end portion of the cockeye that is to be fastened securely to the tug, as required in practical use.

13 designates a singletree, and B a singletree-hook of the kind used for connecting a singletree with a tug having a metal loop or chain on its end in contradistinction to the leather one.

The cockeye is cast in a mold and consists of the following distinct and essential parts to wit, a metal loop 0, a straight round shank C extending from the end of the loop, a rightangled portion 0 at the end of the shank, and a flat part D, extending laterally in opposite directions from the portion 0 and also .tion shown in Fig.

projecting therefrom toward the loop at the other end of the shank.

D is an enlargement on the shank adapted in form and size to be passed through the openings in a tug and to prevent the cockeye from becoming accidentally detached from the tug when the loop 0 is disconnected from a hook on a singletree, as required in unhitching a horse from a vehicle.

The cockeye is connected with a tug as follows: First the loop 0 is passed through one of the openings in the tug until in the posi- Then the cockeye is turned at right angles and placed parallel with the tug, as in Fig. 3.

When the cockeye is disconnected from a vehicle and carried with a tug on a horse, the enlargement D on the shank C in combination with the part D,will prevent the cockeye from becoming accidentally detached from the tug, and in order to detach it from the tug sufficient force must be applied to press the enlargement through the opening in the tug before the loop C can pass throiiigh the same opening.

Many singletree-hooks are adapted to be connected with lugs composed of chains or having open loops at their ends,'and therefore cannot be attached to leather tugs. My invention overcomes this objection by providing a device which may readily be attached to a leather tug, and thereby adapt it to be connected with this class of sin gletree-hooks.

I am aware that lugs or lumps have been formed on hooks of dilferent kinds to prevent their withdrawal from eyes adapted to admit the hooks; but in. no instance has a cockeye been provided with a lateral extension at one end and an enlargement on the shank projecting in an opposite direction from said lateral extension at the end to operate in the manner set forth.

Having thus described the cockeye,what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A cockeye adapted to be detachably connected with a hook on a singletree and also adjustably and detachably connected with a harness-tug and consisting of a single piece direction from the portion 0 substantiallyvas shown and described for the purposes stated.

EDGAR A. HARDY.

\Vitnesses:

J. H. JOHNSON, A. B. GR BB. 

